The Wolf of Wall Street (new Scorsese)

Can see why Leo and Marty wanted to make this one - def. a film about insiderdom and outsiderdom, abt ppl's burning need to be admitted to the inner circle of wealth, fame, power, and the way such desires reinforce/feed into that particular American belief that anybody, regardless of class or circumstance, can write their own ticket to 'the top' (and write it with a special deluxe pen, too). The two smashed car narratives - pristine and damaged - was a beautifully apt way of illustrating how these guys were blind to the consequences of their actions.

The whole movie really is structured like a long drug binge. It's fun for a long time, but after a while it becomes less fun and more rote, and then the last third of it is a long comedown.

Totally bemused that anyone could think it's not moralistic. Key scene for me was the crawling on the floor bit, where these guys who have made millions of dollars acting like screaming children are reduced to preverbal, wriggling worms who can't even swallow solid food. Short of putting having a silent-film intertitle saying "GREED," I don't know what Scorsese could have done to make the point more clearly. Except I guess to not make it funny. But I liked that it was funny.

I detested most of this while watching it, but it's grown in my estimation since. Need to see it again.

i watched part of it again

I didn't find much of it funny, I never need to see it again.

this movie is a movie it again

this movie is dumb but funny

it again

funniest movie of 2013 imo

(that I've seen)

The laboured slapstick in this was met with complete silence by my audience.

Lots of laughing in the theater where I saw it last night. (And at the stuff that was supposed to be funny, too.)

If it had been 90 minutes long I probably would have thought that this film was okay, if a bit shrill and heavy-handed. After 3 hours though I crawled away from it like Leo from the Country Club.

Wow, anyone else see Jonah Hill's claim/confession that he was so eager to work with Scorsese that he agreed to be paid $60,000 for his 7-months of work on this?

my audience was in stitches. stitches!

Jonah Hill paid $60,000 to advertise to the world that he has a pretty big schlong

Seems like a good deal

I meant, received. Fuck

that was a prosthetic, and even so it didn't look like a fassbender

great thread

this was great

i bow to morbs on it being prosthetic but looked real to me

if there's anyone who knows what jonah hill's dick actually looks like it's morbs

it looks like you

cuz you want to put it in yr mouth?

$7,875 fine for balls

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from the DGA Awards on Sat night:

Rob Reiner told the crowd he was taken aback when Scorsese had offered him a part in the film.

"I don't know what is more unbelievable -- that Leonardo DiCaprio is a Jew or that I'm his father," he joked.

for anyone who thought this was a bit short/lacked nudity

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2546958/EXCLUSIVE-Wolf-Wall-Street-DVD-HOUR-longer-F-bombs-longer-sex-scenes.html

For anyone who thought this lacked Rob Reiner nudity

dont feel like reading all you ding dongs complain about this but it was awesome (though 25% too long), and anyone who complains about the continuity needs to go back to everything school. freakin travesty that schoonmaker didn't get an oscar nom for this. (and gravity did??)

I've been waiting for your review w bated breath

Explanation for Schoonmaker: the editors' branch has a better standard of what good cinema is.

btw 4-hour DVD version report has been debunked; your fellow WoWS fanboy Jeffrey Wells is livid.

freakin travesty that schoonmaker didn't get an oscar nom for this.

Yeah, seriously baffled by this.

i looooved the way she cut the scenes in this.

Did the best she could with lemons

doesn't even work as a metaphor

like the film

a real lemon party

morbs maybe you should just write a program that auto-posts "its bad a bad movie" after any post to this thread

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I'm on record as liking it thru Big Mac's exit.

you know what was such a great scene was jonah hill's intro. what a great weird vibe he has in this flick.

Gravity isn't the sucky editing nomination in this field. Dallas Buyers Club is. Get your facts straight not gay, slock.

haven't seen it yet! but come on, how many edits does gravity even HAVE, its famous for being barely edited at all!

It has 156 edits.

correct me if i'm wrong but "editing" in this sense includes computer composition, yes? in which case, the whole movie is one long heavily edited sequence in the same way that an animated piece is. Actually after seeing gravity in imax, it occurred to me it was basically a FPS video game with way too many lengthy and badly written dragon age style asides so maybe it's better served in best full length animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiqvm9QBTlI

correct me if i'm wrong but "editing" in this sense includes computer composition, yes? in which case, the whole movie is one long heavily edited sequence in the same way that an animated piece is. Actually after seeing gravity in imax, it occurred to me it was basically a FPS video game with way too many lengthy and badly written dragon age style asides so maybe it's better served in best full length animation

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:20 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

VFX are their own category, plus there are technical oscars for that stuff

still have to see this again at a decent theater

xp tell that to everyone voting on Best Cinematography for the last four years running.

Jonah Hill Prosthetic Penis in IMAX

Pretty soon they'll have to separate all the tech categories between CGI/non-CGI like they used to B&W/color.

s1ocks: so editing has to be about cutting film? i know there was loads of fx in gravity obvs, but the editing to get bullock and clooney's heads throughout seems pretty fucking complicated and artfully accomplished. just trying to get a clear sense of where they draw the line with this.